[plug] Linux

Jason Belcher jason at whatever.iinet.net.au
Mon Nov 26 17:21:36 WST 2001


Greg Mildenhall wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jason Belcher wrote:
>
>>Nathan Alberti wrote:
>>
>>>"Unable to handle kernel paging request" just means that there was a
>>>page fault that the kernel didn't know what to do with.  That's
>>>usually caused by referencing a bad pointer.  
>>>
>>And this can bring down the entire system?
>>
>
>When it happens in the kernel, yes.
>
>-Greg
>
Ah, I thought he was talking about a bad pointer in another program that 
the kernel didn't understand. My bad.





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